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I came here to photograph hadrians wall ( a couple of metres over brow) when these sheep popped into view.
One thing I look forward to every year is the return of the Damselflies, I just love them. They have such character, great colours and are one insect that have that anthropomorphic quality. You can really get eye contact with these guys and a variety of expressions. I really must try to find some different species this year as well. Only 3.5 Months or so to wait LOL ;o)
This was an Ischnura elegans from July last Summer, I took this using my MP-E at about x2-x3 mag using a diffused flash. It was a 15 image focus stack using an F/7.1 aperture, ISO 320 and a 1/160 shutter speed.
Hope everyone has had a great weekend :o)
"One.....two.....THREE! Yay!!! Everybody clap!
Oh wait....I can't."
Taken at Dunkerhook Park in Paramus, NJ.
Cropped image.
Actually four, if you count the retired Midway carrier in the foreground. This is extremely rare and I noticed this last weekend. Two are already gone.
Five SD40-2s in command of H-NTWGFD1-09A
BNSF 1687
BNSF 1688
BNSF 1997
BNSF 1940
BNSF 1698
Yes, this is a mainline train with nothing but SD40-2s, just what decade are we in?
Too bad 1687 fell victim to the primer door.
From cover of ten count
Not cosplay, just want to try this pose _(:3」∠)_
I wish i had white gloves _(:3」∠)_
So, for each of the first twelve months of my kid I have been doing some LEGO numbers to take him a photograph with.
Here are the first ten!
11 and 12 were only a combination of the previous ones.
“Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.”
Anon
Dark-eyed junco in a tree near Lytton St. and Gordon Ave. in Westview, 2024 qathet Christmas Bird Count.
Sony α 77 ii
Tamron AF 200-400mm ƒ/5.6 LD-IF 75DM
I did a closet count yesterday. Not counting shorts, skorts, rompers, or dresses I had 47 skirts ! I also have 27 tops to mix and match with those skirts which makes a lot of different outfits! I know this could be more than many women have but I still want to go out and get more ! LOL
Photo taken by Carsten / topfloor - please enjoy !
Brighton beach - Dave is counting the fish he caught, using a bamboo stick in the pretty cold water at Brighton beach (cou can see the pier in the background). Caught with the first electronic viewfinder camera (read: ancient), an EPSON / Seiko R-D1s and the Leica 21 mm f/1.4 Summilux lens at f/1.4.
This Photo made it as the winner (Aug 2010) in Brian Auer's Epic Edits Pool for the Environmental Portrait EE-Challenge. See here for more info blog.epicedits.com/category/challenges/
Thank you Brian for your great Blog and your time and energy to keep these challenges going!
See more of my Environmental Portraits in this set www.flickr.com/photos/geopirat/sets/72157624817059428/
This photo was selected by Brian Auer in his monthly photo (Oct 2009) selection over here blog.epicedits.com/2009/10/25/photodump-10-18-2009/commen...
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EPSON DSC Picture
Taken with a digital Rangefinder camera en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epson_R-D1
Justification of Red List category
This species is listed as Critically Endangered because its population has undergone a very rapid reduction, for reasons that are poorly understood but are likely to be at least partly due to hunting along the migration flyway; this decline is projected to continue and increase in the future. Fieldwork in Kazakhstan (and counts in Turkey and the Middle East) has shown the population to be substantially larger than previously feared, but recent demographic studies have found low adult survival, possibly largely driven by hunting pressure along the migration routes and wintering grounds.
By Jim Lawrence
BirdLife International, RSPB (BirdLife in the UK) and leading optics manufacturer Swarovski Optik have just launched a remarkable new interactive website The Amazing Journey which charts the migration of one of the world’s most threatened birds - Sociable Lapwing. The new website enables you to experience the birds' migration online and witness new discoveries as they happen. It also provides support to a large team of international scientists who are trying to prevent the species from becoming extinct. Following extensive research, nine Sociable Lapwings have been carefully fitted with tiny, state-of-the-art satellite transmitters, which will track their hazardous 5,000+ km journey from their breeding grounds in Kazakhstan to their non breeding areas in tropical Africa and other, as yet undiscovered, destinations. The Amazing Journey follows the adventures of Erzhan, Dinara, Svetlana and six other intrepid satellite-tagged lapwings as they fly south for the winter - dodging hunters with guns and falcons and the myriad other unknown threats that await them. Andreas Pittl – Head of the Nature Division at Swarovski said, “This is a hugely important and fascinating project which Swarovski Optik is proud to champion. Wildlife is threatened with extinction for many reasons so finding ways to help such a beautiful and inspiring creature as the Social Lapwing is an important conservation effort we are keen to support. We want to bring people and nature together so they can continue to enjoy brilliant, close-up views of birds like these for years to come.” Designed by online marketing experts Digital Spring, The Amazing Journey uses satellite data fed through Google map technology to keep pace with the birds. A mixture of clever, regularly updated maps and video and photo blog reports from the field will follow their progress. Relatively little is still known about the routes Sociable Lapwings take, so tracking them will provide vital information, enabling BirdLife scientists to monitor and protect the birds and unlock the mystery of their migration. Now, for the first time, those interested in birds, wildlife and conservation can sit alongside scientists, and learn about these extraordinary birds, their migration habits and their conservation. Dr. Paul Donald, the project’s Principal Conservation Scientist at RSPB said, “We are using the world’s smallest and latest satellite transmitter – weighing just 5 grams – to record this amazing journey. By engaging with people around the world and inviting them to see this fascinating migration happening live online we believe we can inspire them to play their part too.” As the Sociable Lapwings progress along a lengthy route through various countries they need to stop every now and again to ‘refuel’ along the way. As they do so they form big feeding flocks (which is how they get their name). Whenever they touch down, precise details of their location are picked up by satellites orbiting high overhead and sent to RSPB scientists. These locations are then passed on to conservation project partners in each of the countries the birds travel through. With detailed coordinates they can quickly locate the flocks of birds, wherever they’ve touched down and take action if they are threatened in any way. The Amazing Journey website will provide regular reports from these scientists in the field keeping us up to date with all the latest news on the birds’ progress. Jim Lawrence, Preventing Extinction Programme Manager at BirdLife International said, “Protecting migratory species on the brink of extinction like Sociable Lapwings can’t be done without the considerable support of BirdLife Species Champions like Swarovski and RSPB. The Amazing Journey website is a new window on our world where you can see BirdLife International Partners around the globe delivering co-ordinated international conservation solutions.” Main photo credit Maxim Koshkin - Conservation Project Leader ACBK.
Abandoned places in Berlin
The former investigative and district court prison in Berlin Köpenick * 1899 was begun in Berlin-Köpenick with the construction of a district court and a prison and taken at the end of 1901 in operation. In May 1933, the SA took over the prison. She used it as a central detention and torture center. During this time, known as Blood Week, communists, dissenters, and Jews were maltreated and murdered behind thick brick walls.
At the time of the GDR, the building was initially used as a men's and youth prison and later converted as a remand prison. Since the eighties, the building is largely empty.
The dilapidated Berlin-Köpenick prison shows Spartan prison conditions at the time of the Emperors. No heating, no toilets, sleeping in dark, tiny cells on wooden bunks
Decades of decay have left their mark: once green and white paint peeling off the walls,
Cell to cell, four stories high, door latch and folding spy doors through which the guards watched the inmates.
If you were here, you whould not feel the need to come back here after the dismissal.
The ever popular Winnats Pass. The proxity to road definitely appealed to me for a summer sunrise! I wonder what lives in that cave?
My own photograph of a female mallard, taken with a Canon EOS 550D - 400mm focal length at 1/4000 sec.
'Out of Bounds' effect created in Paintshop Pro.
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I had a very stressful day at at work, but thank you daylight savings for extending the opportunity to get out and relax, reflect and recharge in nature after the workday is done. The tranquility and beauty of the gorge is just amazing! and always puts me back on track!
I really wanted to use a quicker exposure to capture the crisp reflections in the water, but a large group of kids throwing rocks kept the water ripply long enough for the large barge/tugboat to make it down river and really bring on the waves! as I said, it was one of those days! thank goodness for my 10 stop nd filter....
I know this is "waterfall Wednesday" but I am heading out to shoot waterfalls in just a bit (that counts right?)... and I am looking forward to everyone's great cascading captures!!!!
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With Amtrak 8 clearing just seconds before, CP 281 blasts through Tosa with a CSX AC6000 leading a CP GE and 4 UP SD90s